Commensality, society and culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3079871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claude Fischler (CNRS & EHESS, Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 528-548 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0539018411413963 |
| OpenAlex | W1994525661 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 220 |
| References cited | 49 |
The founding fathers of the social sciences recognized commensality as a major issue but considered it mostly in a religious, sacrificial, ritualistic context. The notion of commensality is examined in its various dimensions and operations. Empirical data are used to examine cultural variability in attitudes about food, commensality and its correlates among countries usually categorized as 'Western' and 'modern'. Clear-cut differences are identified, hinting at possible relationships between, on the one hand, cultural attachment to commensality and, on the other hand, a lower prevalence of obesity and associated health problems involving nutrition
Geography · Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory · Social science · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior · Organic Food and Agriculture · Psychology · Social Psychology
Eating beside Ourselves
Food cultures of elderly loneliness
Measuring the older adults’ emotion with commensality robots of different social presence
Family Cookbooks – Objects of Family Memory
It's like a connection between all of us
O dinheiro e a comida na metrópole
Cultura alimentar no contexto do sistema familiar rural contemporâneo na Zona da Mata de Minas Gerais
The association between loneliness or social isolation and food and eating behaviours
Family meals and eating practices among mothers in Santos, Brazil
Nourishing the Body, Disenfranchising the Spirit
“In principle I’m vegan, but…” dietary flexibility and the conflicting normativities related to plant-based eating
Shared Devotion, Shared Food
Youth’s lived food environments
When Eating Becomes Collaborative
Welcoming and caring schools
From plate to post
Solo or Social Chefs
Nutritional Anthropology
Identities at the dinner table
Estrategias Alimentarias de Unidades Domésticas Vulnerables en Sectores Periurbanos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Aportes al Diseño y la Gestión de Organizaciones Locales y Políticas Públicas Actuales
Socialisations alimentaires entre touristes et locaux. Formes et effets des expériences culinaires de la plateforme Eatwith
Collective Resources of Social Reproduction and Care? Potentialities and Limitations of Urban Initiatives of Commensality
Between Spring Banquet and Cannibal Banquet
As práticas do Slow Food no Brasil
Entrelaçando rituais de hospitalidade no Caminho de Cora Coralina
Eating Insects with Alien Friends
Contextual Health Information Behavior in the Daily Lives of People with Type 2 Diabetes
Sustainable food consumption in commensality
‘It Takes a Village’
Can culinary capital be (re) produced in school
“Ngeli”
Food for thought on eating while meeting virtually
Good Measures
Balance, self-efficacy and collective individualism
Survey of young consumer’s attitudes using food sharing attitudes and behaviors model
“Food for thought”
“This place is (now) my own home. It is my home till my death”
Food Cultures
Dinâmicas alimentares na relação rural-urbano
Conviviality
Food restriction and the experience of social isolation
Food, lifestyle and diabetes in Cochabamba, Bolivia
Children's experiences of food insecurity, emotional and behavioural states in Masaka District, Uganda
Le don, la dette et l’enfant. Une étude-pilote sur la réciprocité dans les familles
La « personne âgée isolée dénutrie »
Fiat panis
Sensing Sociality
Usos e significados do fogão a lenha nas habitações rurais e urbanas de Francisco Beltrão, PR e Descanso, SC
Commensality and Individual Eating
Le lien social à l’étouffée ? Les sociabilités alimentaires à l’épreuve de la crise de la Covid-19
Sensorial pedagogies, hungry fat cells and the limits of nutritional health education
Determinantes sociais em saúde associados à vivência da fome entre adolescentes do Brasil
Adesão à alimentação escolar por adolescentes brasileiros
Guias alimentares para a população brasileira
Social determinants of health associated with the experience of hunger among Brazilian adolescents
Procedure versus practice”
Healthy Aging at Family Mealtimes
A Proposed Theoretical Model for Sustainable and Safe Commensality among Older Adults
Intergenerational Commensality
Looking for Commensality
The social disorganization of eating
Understanding traditional and modern eating
The impact of eating alone on food intake and everyday eating routines
Childhood memories of food and eating in lower-income families in the United States
Flexible employment, flexible eating and health risks
Cross-cultural food practices and nutrition seeking behaviors among pregnant and postpartum Indian women living in Australia
Socio-cognitive barriers to healthy eating among mothers
Dietary practices of university students
Práticas alimentares de estudantes universitários
Australia’s evolving food practices
Food-based dietary guidelines
You know what, I’m in the trend as well’
Poor appetite and overeating reported by adults in Australia during the coronavirus-19 disease pandemic
La génomique nutritionnelle
Experiences and perceptions of nutritional health and wellbeing amongst food insecure women in Europe
Friends not food
The social facilitation of eating. A review
Eating apart together
Halal meat and religious slaughter
Types of gambling
Childhood obesity
Is It a Pleasure to Eat Together? Theoretical Reflections on Conviviality and the Mediterranean Diet
Exploring Commensality in Sikh foodways
Bénéfices et obligations alimentaires dans la belle-famille du couple mixte. Brus et gendres français chez leurs alliés taiwanais
Lodging in a Fluitship
We can never close the book and say, ‘We’ll continue next week’” – The rhythms of cooking and learning to cook in Swedish Home economics
Memories, relationships and identity
Understanding Eating Events
A cooperative model of tasting
Three feet under
Cultural sustainability
More-than-human assemblages and the politics of (Food) conviviality
Flavored tears, soylent, and ecological commensality
Vegan veterinary professionals’ experiences of commensality in small animal veterinary practice in England
Purity and pollution
The value of social eating at culturally and linguistically diverse lunch clubs
People don’t feel good if they can’t feed you
Creating New Food Practices
Food for Thought
Understanding commercial hosting in food experiences an ethnography of host–guest dynamics in the private domain
Paradox of Plenty
Poverty and obesity
Is modern Western culture a health hazard?
Lay American conceptions of nutrition
A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience
Moral Sentiments and Material Interests
Stone Age Economics
Manger avec les dieux. Partage sacrificiel et commensalité dans la Rome antique
Essays on Cultural Transmission
Why We Cooperate
The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure
Claude Fischler, Estelle Masson, Manger. Français, Européens et Américains face à l'alimentation
Revolution at the Table
Evolution of obesity by social status in France, 1981–2003
Le dîner des français
Medical doctors’ attitudes and beliefs about diet and health are more like those of their lay countrymen (France, Germany, Italy, UK and USA) than those of doctors in other countries
Dating and eating. Beliefs about dating foods among university students
Dating and eating. How university students select eating settings
Commensal eating patterns
Attitudes towards large numbers of choices in the food domain
The contemporary diet in France
Social facilitation of food intake in humans
Position et disposition des convives dans la société de cour au 17e siècle
Rethinking the value of choice
Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe
Taboos of Commensality
Operation of the laws of sympathetic magic in disgust and other domains
Melding the public and private spheres
Position et disposition des convives dans la société de cour au 17e siècle. Éléments pour une réflexion sur le pouvoir politique dans l'espace de la table
Gastro-nomie et gastro-anomie
Simmel on culture
Food, self and identity
Commensality, society and culture
Tolerated theft, suggestions about the ecology and evolution of sharing, hoarding and scrounging
Food Rules in the United States
Sharing, Talking, and Giving
Gastro-politics in Hindu South Asia
Changes in the Practice of Eating
Time Use and Subjective Well-Being in France and the U.S
| Unique citing works | 220 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 14,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 209 |